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Sunnyvale, Calif. - April 9, 2007 --StoreVault, a NetApp (NASDAQ:
NTAP) division, today announced that its StoreVault S500 has been
certified to work with VMware Infrastructure 3. Combining
StoreVault with VMware Infrastructure provides small and
medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with infrastructure virtualization
strategies that better manage storage and server resources. This
announcement further expands the joint collaboration between VMware
and NetApp to provide combined consolidation solutions.

Available immediately, the StoreVault S500
helps customers realize the benefits of combining storage with
infrastructure virtualization. VMware Infrastructure enables SMB
customers to optimize and manage their IT infrastructure by
allowing a single hardware platform to run multiple virtual machine
instances simultaneously, maximizing hardware efficiency. When the
StoreVault S500 is deployed in VMware environments, it can simplify
storage management concerns such as resources, data backup and
recovery, and capacity provisioning.

Data growth challenges are creating tremendous
headaches in data loss, backup, and recovery for SMBs. Part of the
problem is that many SMB IT environments consist of many servers
with direct-attached storage (DAS). As a result, there is an
increasing interest among SMBs to realize the same benefits that
enterprise data centers have but on a smaller scale. Severing the
physical dependencies between servers and storage achieves
measurably better returns on both server and storage resources.

"Virtualization is useful to businesses of all
sizes, not just Fortune 500 companies," said Brian Byun, vice
president of Global Partners and Solutions at VMware. "SMB IT
managers face many of the same pressures as data center operators
when solving storage and server management issues while having
fewer resources to address the problems. Certifying StoreVault with
VMware provides a great value proposition to meet the budgetary and
reliability needs of smaller firms."

Ahearn, Jasco + Company, an accounting and
financial services firm based in south Florida, was living with the
pains of older equipment, DAS, and the inability to scale resources
every day. Ahearn, Jasco + Company's infrastructure consisted of
multiple servers running separate applications for more than 35
employees. Many of their servers were legacy systems using DAS that
were performance-bound by their disks, which, in many cases,
consisted of single drives without RAID. As a result, performance
was slow while data redundancy and fault tolerance were major
concerns.

"Many SMBs similar to Ahearn, Jasco + Company
are realizing that DAS is inefficient, painful to grow, and unable
to meet growing storage performance demands," said Audrey Levi,
president of Altek Computer Group, a value-added reseller (VAR)
based in Miami. "So there was a good opportunity to help Ahearn,
Jasco + Company revolutionize their server and storage environment
and boost performance by virtualizing their resources or, in other
words, creating a centralized storage pool that can be accessed by
virtual machines."

With tax season quickly approaching, Ahearn,
Jasco + Company had to address its need for increased storage. In
the past, this meant adding storage to individual systems in
chunks, which led to some servers being underutilized. Ahearn,
Jasco + Company decided that adding more DAS was not a viable
option due to the low price-performance ratio, high expense, and,
most importantly, downtime and disruption to employees during the
important tax season.

"We desperately needed to upgrade our entire
IT infrastructure on a limited budget," said Dave DePillis, IT
manager of Ahearn, Jasco + Company. "It became almost impossible to
completely understand the storage sprawl happening in our
environment. What we needed was a unified view of all of our
resources to improve server and storage allocation. Backup was
another big concern since we relied on tape devices that were
painfully slow and didn't guarantee disaster recovery-something
that needed to be fixed with hurricane season coming."

The StoreVault S500 provided Ahearn, Jasco +
Company with an enterprise-proven storage technology platform from
NetApp that was affordable and easy to use. The StoreVault S500
allows storage to be added or allocated on-the-fly without
disruption to operations. In addition, the StoreVault S500 enables
faster backup and recovery for a higher degree of data reliability.
With a single purchase, Ahearn, Jasco + Company gained greater
flexibility to grow and respond to future data storage needs
without additional investment.

Just as StoreVault simplifies the storage
environment, VMware Infrastructure does the same for optimizing the
use of hardware assets and creating a solution that allows new
server, application, and storage capacity to be provided at a
moment's notice. VMware Infrastructure has been deployed by more
than 20,000 enterprise customers on industry-standard servers
available from leading server vendors. SMBs such as Ahearn, Jasco +
Company are marrying blade servers running VMware Infrastructure to
StoreVault storage systems for greater reliability, flexibility,
and affordability. Multiple VMware virtual machines run on a
consolidated hardware platform and access dedicated storage on
StoreVault. The StoreVault S500 meets all storage needs for any new
or existing workloads and VMware Infrastructure allows entire
virtual machines to be backed up, moved, and replicated with zero
downtime. In addition, Ahearn, Jasco + Company reduced rack space,
lowered energy costs, and created a far more flexible environment,
while improving data reliability rates and disaster recovery
times.

"We completely modernized our server and
storage environment while meeting our budget requirements," said
DePillis. "The combination of StoreVault and VMware Infrastructure
provided us a complementary technology solution that solved our
business problems. We now have a network storage infrastructure
that will last three to five years with the exciting prospect of
future scalability at a cost that is next to nothing. StoreVault
and VMware Infrastructure provided a powerful formula to improve
our storage and server utilization and manage our capacity for
future investment. Nothing like this was available from my
traditional storage and server vendors. Also, the StoreVault
Advanced Protection Architecture and RAID-DP™ provided
enterprise-class security and data protection functionality at a
price that fit our budget."

"We're seeing an interesting trend among SMBs
that are looking for smarter, more reliable alternatives to the
traditional way of handling storage-and iSCSI SAN and
infrastructure virtualization are getting a lot of attention," said
Sajai Krishnan, general manager of StoreVault. "Our strategic
relationship with VMware is designed to bring added value to IT
generalists within SMBs that are tasked with taming storage and
infrastructure management with a limited budget. Ahearn, Jasco +
Company is a great example of one way VMware Infrastructure can be
brought into play for SMBs with our StoreVault storage
platform."

Price and Availability
Pricing is available directly from StoreVault VARs.

About StoreVault
StoreVault, a NetApp division, is focused on delivering data
storage solutions tailored to the needs of small and medium-sized
businesses. StoreVault combines enterprise-proven technology from
Network Appliance, a world leader in unified storage solutions for
today's data-intensive enterprise, with the scalability,
simplicity, security, and affordability required by SMBs.
Information about StoreVault solutions and resellers is available
at
www.storevault.com.

About Network Appliance
Network Appliance is a world leader in unified storage solutions
for today's data-intensive enterprise. Since its inception in 1992,
Network Appliance has delivered technology, product, and partner
firsts. Information about Network Appliance™ solutions and
services is available at
www.netapp.com.